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coincidence - 12 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | coincidence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | agreement; coexistence |
| Synonyms: | accompaniment, accord, collaboration, concurrence, conformity, conjunction, consonance, correlation, correspondence, union, accordance, concomitance, parallelism, synchronism |
| Antonyms: | clash, deviation, difference, disagreement, divergence, mismatch |
| Main Entry: | coincidence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | accidental happening |
| Synonyms: | accident, chance, eventuality, fate, fluke, happening, incident, luck, stroke of luck, fortuity, happy accident |
| Antonyms: | design, plan, scheme |
| Main Entry: | circumstance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | situation, condition |
| Synonyms: | Moira, accident, action, adjunct, affair, article, case, cause, coincidence, concern, contingency, crisis, destiny, detail, doom, element, episode, event, exigency, fact, factor, fate, feature, fortuity, go, happening, happenstance, incident, intervention, item, juncture, kismet, lot, matter, occasion, occurrence, particular, phase, place, point, portion, proviso, respect, scene, status, stipulation, supervention, thing, time, where it's at |
| Main Entry: | coexistence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | happening or being at same time, place |
| Synonyms: | accord, coincidence, concurrence, conformity, conjunction, harmony, order, peace, coetaneousness, coevality, contemporaneousness, simultaneousness, synchronicity |
| Main Entry: | conjunction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | combination |
| Synonyms: | affiliation, agreement, alliance, association, cahoots, coincidence, concurrence, juxtaposition, partnership, union, concomitance, congruency, conjointment, hookup, parallelism, tie-up* |
| Notes: | a conjunction is a word that connects: a coordinating conjunction connects similar elements (you and I), while a correlative conjunction has related parts (either/or) |
| Antonyms: | detachment, disconnection, division, separation |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | resemblance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | correspondence, similarity |
| Synonyms: | Xerox*, affinity, analogy, birds of a feather*, carbon*, carbon copy, clone, closeness, coincidence, comparison, conformity, counterpart, double, facsimile, image, kinship, likeness, look-alike, parallel, parity, sameness, semblance, simile, similitude, spitting image*, alikeness, comparability, like of, peas in a pod, ringer, two of a kind |
| Antonyms: | contrast, difference, diversity, dissimililarity |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | similarity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | likeness, correspondence |
| Synonyms: | affinity, agreement, analogy, approximation, association, closeness, coincidence, collation, community, comparison, concurrence, conformity, congruity, connection, correlation, dead ringer*, harmony, homogeneity, identity, kinship, look-alike, parallel, parity, proportion, reciprocity, relation, relationship, resemblance, sameness, semblance, simile, similitude, alikeness, comparability, concordance, congruence, interrelation, likes of, parallelism, peas in a pod, synonymity, two of a kind |
| Antonyms: | difference, dissimilarity, opposition, unlikeness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | happenstance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | chance |
| Synonyms: | coincidence, fate, incident, luck |
| Main Entry: | correspondence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | agreement |
| Synonyms: | accord, analogy, coherence, coincidence, comparison, concurrence, conformity, congruity, consistency, correlation, equivalence, fitness, harmony, likeness, match, regularity, relation, resemblance, similarity, symmetry, comparability |
| Antonyms: | difference, disagreement |
| Main Entry: | event |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | occurrence, happening |
| Synonyms: | accident, act, action, advent, adventure, affair, appearance, business, calamity, case, catastrophe, celebration, ceremony, chance, circumstance, coincidence, crisis, deed, development, emergency, episode, experience, exploit, fact, function, holiday, incident, juncture, marvel, matter, milestone, miracle, misfortune, mishap, mistake, occasion, occurrence, pass, phase, phenomenon, predicament, proceeding, shift, situation, story, thing*, tide, transaction, triumph, turn, wonder, conjuncture |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | chance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fate, luck |
| Synonyms: | accident, advantage, adventure, bad luck, break, cast, casualty, coincidence, contingency, destination, destiny, doom, fluke, fortune, future, gamble, good luck, haphazard, happening, hazard, hit*, kismet, lot, lottery, lucky break, misfortune, occurrence, odds, outcome, peril, providence, risk, stroke of luck*, toss-up, wheel of fortune*, even chance, fortuity, hap, heads or tails, in the cards, luck out, peradventure, throw of the dice, turn of the cards, way the cookie crumbles |
| Antonyms: | aim, design, plan, scheme |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | hazard |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | luck, chance |
| Synonyms: | accident, adventure, coincidence, dynamite, fling*, fluke*, go*, long shot, lucky break*, misfortune, mishap, possibility, risk, stroke of luck*, toss-up, venture, wager, hundred-to-one, lucky hit, risky business, way the ball bounces, way the cookie crumbles |
| Antonyms: | assurance, certainty, determination, fact, proof, reality, surety |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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